This is all shockingly accurate. It follows the course of my interactions with the filmmaker to a tee. I'd be cool if they wanted John Williams, because nobody's John Williams. They wanted the theme to "Little Miss Sunshine." That should've been my first warning. Anyhow, thanks for this. It helped.
Oh fucking hell are you kidding me That's like every fucking student film ever cut to this shit Because they saw it in fucking Eternal Sunshine. If it makes you feel any better the last feature I worked on the director and I were on the same page: he wanted the music to sound like Tetsuo Body Hammer and what we got was a dude tuning an acoustic guitar. The warning sign should have been the fact that the composer was commissioned before filming started but never turned in anything until we were in post.